Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:29:31 -0800
"Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2007 6:03 PM, Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net> wrote:
> > > If it is mass-storage, you just mount it with a command like "mount
> > > -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/usb" (mount point and device might be
> > > different). Or you can put a line in /etc/fstab :
> >
> > > /dev/sda1   /media/usb   auto   noauto,users   0    0
> >
> > > Then you could just say "mount /media/usb".
> >
> > Thanks for the response.  when I try this, it tells me:
> >
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>

I think hal also does that. It's working on my xfce with thunar file manager,
no gnome. You probably need a file/desktop manager that can get hal
notifications though (it's either that or dbus, if you know which package does
this you can probably look into it's dependencies)
 
> Auto should work, but the FS should be vfat, so -
> 
> stand alone command:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
> (-t means type; again, paths may be different)
> 
> or in fstab:
> /dev/sda1/     /media/usb   vfat   noauto,users   0   0
> 
> ...and then:
> mount /media/usb
> 
> You can get more info with "man mount" and "man fstab"
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kelly
> 
>